PHILIPPINE INFLATION likely eased for a second straight month to a three-month low in June as lower oil and rice prices ...

When protection becomes strategy: Insurance and the future of wealth For decades, wealth management discussions have largely centered on investment growth. Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, ...

Filipino consumers are becoming more deliberate, more cautious, and more emotionally driven in how they spend-signaling a shift that brands can no longer ignore. These were among the key insights ...

Acumen’s Project Alphabet, undertaken in 2025, showed movements in the top five values that influence behavior and decisions among Filipinos across generations compared with the study 10 years earlier ...

By Subramanyam Sreenivasaiah DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION in the Philippines has already moved from adoption to optimization. Yet, beneath this progress, shadow AI or the use of unauthorized tools to manage ...

Agentic AI is now 10x faster and a fraction of the cost of human labor. A billing model built around hours of human time is no longer just inefficient — it is structurally incompatible with the ...

THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a memorandum imposing recalibrated ceilings on interest rates and fees charged by financing and lending companies on small consumer loans.

STEADY INFLOWS from remittances and the services sector despite emerging external pressures helped narrow the Philippines’ balance of payments (BoP) gap to a three-month low in April, Bangko Sentral ...

MERALCO POWERGEN CORP. (MGen), the power generation arm of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), is set to develop a 49-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage system (BESS) in Toledo, Cebu, which is expected ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it reached agreement with the pork industry to set a minimum farmgate price of P210 per kilogram for hogs on a liveweight basis. The floor price is designed to ...

THE human rights situation in the Philippines remains defined by a deeply entrenched culture of impunity and the continued occurrence of unlawful killings under the administration of President ...

ALMOST 7 out of 10 Filipino employees place stability and work-life balance at the forefront when choosing where to work, urging employers to offer flexible working options such as working from home, ...